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TALES OF MY LANDLORD.
a witness! Leap back! Why, is not the girl's fortune"
"The young lady's, if you please," said Haystone, interrupting him.
"Well, well, no disrespect meant—Will Miss Ashton's tocher not weigh against any in Lothian?"
"Granted," answered Bucklaw; "but I care not a penny for her tocher, I have enough of my own."
"And the mother, that loves you like her own child?"
"Better than some of her children, I believe," said Bucklaw, "or there would be little love wared on the matter."
"And Colonel Sholto Douglas Ashton, who desires the match above all earthly things?"
"Because," said Bucklaw, "he expects to carry the county of through my interest."
"And the father, who is as keen to see the match concluded, as ever I have been to win a main?"
